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...wonder we as a nation are truly confronted with a crisis of political leadership (as Wardell highlights in his editorial). Too many politicians think along the same lines as Kuttner regarding entitlements. Is it a coincidence that the AARP constitutes the United States' largest, most powerful lobbying group? Would any self-interested politician want to ruffle the baby boomers' feathers as they prepare to pad their nests for retirement? Would such politicians be overly concerned with the less than stellar voting record of America's youth when they have plenty of baby boomer votes to rely...
...everything in the White House connects to what I'm doing, but it seems so far away," says John Jackson, a summa cum laude graduate of Howard University, who has been unable to find a summer job, even as a cashier. Others express a sense of generational siege. "The AARP ((American Association of Retired Persons)) has the power to mortgage our future," says Joe Ross Edelheit, 21, a former field coordinator for presidential candidate Paul Tsongas. "Our generation is under attack...
Nobody has to theorize about how organized interest groups are likely to respond. Only two are backing the plan, and of them, only the American Association of Retired Persons has summoned any enthusiasm. That is a bit of a role reversal, since the 32 million-member AARP did much to kill a law enacted under the Reagan Administration that would have insured people against catastrophic illness. AARP helped persuade Congress to repeal the law on the ground that it imposed on oldsters too high a cost in extra premiums. This time around, AARP is pleased that the Administration intends...
...focus has to be health care. This is a tough one. We'll have to send out some trial balloons. Don't you do that--pass the buck to Shalala. Watch out for the AARP. They're already rumbling about the Social Security changes...
...greatest thing you could do for Bill Clinton is rip out this page and send it to Lovola Burgess, president of the American Association of Retired Persons (601 E St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20049). Otherwise, the minute Clinton proposes anything that would pinch affluent retirees in any way, the AARP leadership will squelch it -- along with America's chance to get its house in order...